DUBLIN, IRELAND
23 - 25 JUNE 2025
For further queries regarding registration, please email us at info@wctcregistration.org
If you are a journalist looking to attend the Conference, please email press@theunion.org with a brief paragraph about you (including your designation and where you work), along with three recent articles on a relevant topic you’ve written that we can review.
Providing the platform for the global tobacco control community to drive real progress and change is our priority for this conference, and achieving this requires all attendees to engage in discussions in good faith. To safeguard this, we require all those registering to declare their non-affiliation with any tobacco company or tobacco-affiliated organisation.
To ensure that this declaration is made by all who are attending the WCTC, we require each individual to register – unfortunately, this means that group registrations are not possible.
Helpful visa links
Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland)
https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/visas-for-ireland/
Irish Immigration Website
https://www.irishimmigration.ie
Refunds are to be submitted before May 20, 2025
No refund claims will be processed after this date
25% administrative fee is applicable
Refunds will be processed after the event only
Dr. Fenton Howell is medical graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland, and completed higher specialist training in Public Health Medicine in 1991. He is the former National Tobacco Control Adviser to the Department of Health, is a Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin, and is a board member of the National Cancer Registry Ireland. Dr. Fenton Howell is a Fellow of both the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is a past Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland, and past President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, the All Ireland Social Medicine Group and the Irish Medical Organization. He has previously served on the boards of ASH Ireland, the Tobacco Free Research Institute, the European Network on Smoking Prevention, the Institute of Public Health in Ireland and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, and he chaired the Prevention Working Group for the Ireland–Northern Ireland–United States National Cancer Institute Cancer Consortium.
Dr. Gan Quan, PhD, is Senior Vice President at Vital Strategies, where he leads the Tobacco Control Division, comprising a global team working with governments and civil society partners around the world to reduce tobacco use, the leading preventive cause of deaths worldwide. The Division has supported work in more than 50 low- and middle-income countries with a focus on evidence-based tobacco control policies and implementation, capacity building, and countering interference from the tobacco industry.
Dr. Gan Quan has more than 15 years of international experience in health system building, policy implementation, government partnership, and policy research. Prior to joining Vital Strategies, Dr. Gan Quan spent 14 years with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), first as Technical Advisor, then Director of China Office, and most recently as Director of Tobacco Control Department. Before joining The Union, Dr. Gan Quan was a research fellow at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at University of California, San Francisco.
